We carefully craft vision and mission statements and strategic plans. Yet the challenge of getting individuals to consistently contribute to these outcomes gets way less attention. An article for all managers.

When a company employs somebody, they usually do so for one reason … because that person is COMPETENT to do a job. Here’s an idea – don’t employ people because they can do the job. Resist it, even just once.

I recently read an old copy of the March 2010 Australian Financial Review’s Boss Magazine which focused on Reinventing Leadership. The magazine published an extremely interesting article which was an excerpt of the speech Don Argus delivered at a Leadership Victoria dinner in December 2009.

What’s happening with Lean Six Sigma training in Australia and around the world today? We’re seeing suppliers offer anything from 3 to 20 days of training to achieve supposedly the same qualification. What we also seeing is the offer of off-the -shelf packages that are allegedly suitable for any buyer.

Methods and tools for graphically displaying data such as Box Plots, Pareto Charts and Multi-Vari Charts are used widely in business improvement. This is particularly true where Six Sigma methods are employed. But there is a problem …